It’s not even close, less than half of 3.5’s 85.5% in ARC. Some larger Open models are competitive in Hellaswag, TruthfulQA and MMLU but ARC is still a major struggle for small models.
3Bs are kind of pointless right now because the machines with processors capable of running them at a usable speed probably have enough memory to run a 7B anyway.
There are smaller models that can run on most laptops.
https://www.maginative.com/article/stability-ai-releases-stable-lm-3b-a-small-high-performance-language-model-for-smart-devices/
In benchmarks this looks like it is not far off Chat-GPT 3.5.
It’s not even close, less than half of 3.5’s 85.5% in ARC. Some larger Open models are competitive in Hellaswag, TruthfulQA and MMLU but ARC is still a major struggle for small models.
3Bs are kind of pointless right now because the machines with processors capable of running them at a usable speed probably have enough memory to run a 7B anyway.